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Abe Lincoln
Title: Abe Lincoln
Category: History / North American History
Details: Words: 284 | Pages: 1.2 (approximately 235 words/page)
Abe Lincoln
1809 - Abraham Lincoln was born on a stormy morning, on February 12, l809 in a log cabin in Kentucky. Lincoln was named after his grandfather. His parents were Thomas Lincoln and Nancy Hanks. He had one sister, Sara.
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1834 - Lincoln, age 24, worked for the state government of Illinois. He was elected to the legislature as a Whig.
1836 - On September 9, Lincoln received his law license and is a leader of the Whig party. He first practices law in Springfield, …showed first 75 words of 284 total…
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…showed last 75 words of 284 total…Emancipation Proclamation" freeing all slaves in states held by Confederates and the enlisting of black soldiers in the Union Army.
1864 - Lincoln is reelected President. He won the election defeating the Democrat George B. McClellan. He carried 22 of the 25 participating states. He received 2l2 of 233 electoral votes.
1865 - On April 13, Lincoln was at a play at Ford's Theatre and was shot. John Wilkes Booth. Lincoln died on the morning of April 15. Lincoln is buried in Springfield, Illinois.
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